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by chmod600 3y ago
SCOTUS mostly hears cases where there is disagreement among the appeals courts, or where they feel the appeals courts are getting it wrong consistently. They don't usually go after every decision they disagree with. And for those that
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by chmod600 3y ago
Can you please explain the trade off in more detail?
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by chmod600 3y ago
Fair use doesn't completely liberate the new work from the old. It just means that the particular use of the old work is not infringing. When the new work gets used in new ways, those new uses might be infringing.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Maybe we should just ignore all findings until another team has independently reproduced the result. Even if what the original team concludes is true, a repro failure could indicate that it's under-documented. And if it's under-do
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by chmod600 3y ago
How is China the most important? Measured in dollars, a brief search seems to show that we trade more with Canada? https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/t...
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by chmod600 3y ago
Not a direct answer, but I think a part of it is the general anxiety caused when the phone is physically present. Maybe someone is sending me a message? Or maybe not, and of so, why not? It only takes 3 seconds to respond to a message, what
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by chmod600 3y ago
What's wrong with "can't we just" questions? Lots of curious laypersons here, and it's often a useful way to learn. Usually it's pretty easy for an expert to answer such questions.
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by chmod600 3y ago
The genius of the US is that, no matter who becomes president, the country still functions pretty well.
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by chmod600 3y ago
To rephrase: policies are playing out badly enough that the equilibrium has shifted to a net outflow. That doesn't mean it's bad for everyone or that it was great for everyone before. But such a shift in actual people movements ov
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by chmod600 3y ago
People leaving is a sign that policies aren't working well for everyone. For each person that leaves, typically that means many more whose quality of life has declined and are considering leaving. If California works for you, then grea
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by chmod600 3y ago
On HN, we should think about socialism as a startup. Prove it with a small number of loyal customers, listen and learn from them, and then show how it scales to a lot of customers. It seems to be stuck at the "scale it up" stage.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Promises of "socialism" always seem to require granting huge amounts of power to the government, which leads to inefficiency, abuse, and worse. In theory, perhaps socialism doesn't require huge amounts of government power; or
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by chmod600 3y ago
"Socialism is about how workers organise their workplace (owning, managing and sharing the produce and profit of their labour)." That is a nice simplification, but it makes it sound like something that can just emerge gracefully w
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by chmod600 3y ago
You assume that preferences are economically important. I'm not saying I disagree, but in theory you could have a central planning department that effectively says "we have calculated what you need for maximum productivity; here y
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by chmod600 3y ago
What's a "sun" type? Do you mean "sum" type? And sigils are symbols, not special values: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)
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by chmod600 3y ago
Apparently both. Computer languages are partially to communicate between people and computers, and partially to communicate among people.
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by chmod600 3y ago
It's about the burden of proof. If you try to place the burdenof proof on anything that changes the status quo, it causes two problems: 1. You can't prove a negative. 2. What constitutes a change from the status quo? The status qu
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by chmod600 3y ago
Ok, why do we tax income and capital gains (which have few externalities) vastly more than consumption (which has a lot of externalities)?
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by chmod600 3y ago
Why do we tax human labor at all? We could just tax consumption, which would have obvious environmental benefits.
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by chmod600 4y ago
"I like the egg myth because it suggests that the Chimú understood that social and political inequality is ‘baked in’ to humanity from the beginning," A strange statement and I'm not sure I understand the meaning. Such a myth
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by chmod600 4y ago
No surprise. We over-worship smartness and education. Doing, trying, and attitude are probably much more important beyond basic intelligence.
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by chmod600 4y ago
A gun is not a magical shield of protection, but it gives a fighting chance and they do work at least sometimes. If we are already denying someone an adequate police+DA system, by what argument can we also deny them the means to defend them
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by chmod600 4y ago
Firearms rights are an intellectual exercise to me, for the most part. I know they are personal to some, but this is an intellectual forum. In the last five years, the pro-gun-rights side of the equation has moved more away from the idea of
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by chmod600 4y ago
When a city is overwhelmingly Democrat, as most cities are, you'd expect them to elect Democrats. But the people who get in office are actually leftist radicals. It's a weird social phenomenon. Groups based on trait X will tend to
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by chmod600 4y ago
If the police and or DA won't protect you for political reasons, that's a pretty good argument that you should be able to defend yourself. It's fundamentally unfair to deny carry permits for decades and then also fail at effe
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by chmod600 4y ago
Scientists show the safety by searching diligently for unsafety and not finding it. That's not proof. A ten year drug trial may fail to show problems that take 20 years to surface, but that doesn't mean the drug is safe. I suspect
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by chmod600 4y ago
To do what NYC did and bring more residents into downtown (rather than just offices), SF needs to be an appealing place to live. NYC tries to make itself an appealing place to live. SF does not. I'm not sure quite what SF is optimizing
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by chmod600 4y ago
Boring architectures already exist. Why reimplement what's already done?
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by chmod600 4y ago
How does holding the bonds to maturity help? Sure, interest rates might go down, but the expectations are already factored into the market price. If they go down more than expected, the bigger bank wins. If they go down less than expected,
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by chmod600 4y ago
Off-topic, but the writing style seems to use "&" excessively. Did anyone else find that disruptive?

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